{"id":14961,"date":"2020-12-14T15:18:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T20:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=14961"},"modified":"2020-12-15T16:05:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T21:05:35","slug":"sketches-by-mako-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2020\/12\/14\/sketches-by-mako-7\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a9SKETCHES BY MAKO: 7"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>7\r\n\r\nWhether it\u2019s forever or not, each day that passes you get closer and closer to the end.\r\n\r\nHow do you want to live your life?\r\n\r\nHow do you want to fill your day?\r\n\r\nCan you keep chapters?\r\n\r\nYesterday was my birthday.\r\n\r\nIt is becoming difficult to understand age beyond its construct.\r\n\r\nThe linearity of time is an illusion.\r\n\r\nWe are simply points in a scatterplot\r\n\r\nOr constellations\r\n\r\nThe difference between organic and synthetic is age, because by sheer nature the organic is finite.\r\n\r\nFinite nominally but infinite structurally, systematically.\r\n\r\nAn Apple Rots But A Tree Evolves.\r\n\r\nI am finding it difficult to differentiate myself.\r\n\r\nI am finding it difficult to differentiate myself.\r\n\r\nAm I Apple or Tree?\r\n\r\nPerhaps both, curse Aristotle, who\r\n\r\nCried in Gestalt!\r\n\r\nPerhaps my whole is mathematically equivalent to the sum of my parts.\r\n\r\nIf matter cannot be created or destroyed within a closed system, are we not\r\n\r\nSimply recycled atoms from leaves, lemon tek\r\n\r\nPoured over candlelit dinners\r\n\r\nSangria from Sudanese stelliums\r\n\r\n\u201cI love you\u201d my Mother said, in broken tongue\r\n\r\n\u201cI love you\u201d my Father said, verbiage assault wrapped in bloody bandages\r\n\r\n\u201cI love you\u201d my Brother said, over allergic reaction and laughing gas\r\n\r\nDeliverance of severed packages\r\n\r\nRegardless if it\u2019s forever or not, for each day that passes, you get closer and closer to the end\r\n\r\nHow do you want to live your life?\r\n\r\nHow do you want to fill your day?\r\n\r\nWhere do you feel safe?\r\n\r\nWhere can you explore?\r\n\r\nCommit to these missions, Rover\r\n\r\nCuriosity!\r\n\r\nI have been having the same dreams, repeatedly, lately\r\n\r\nIn that dream, I am more than my parts\r\n\r\nI am skin, I am flesh, I am bone\r\n\r\nI am carcinogen\r\n\r\nI am curator\r\n\r\nI am creator\r\n\r\nI have words that escape my wet tongue in damp O\u2019s and Ah\u2019s\r\n\r\nI can still store data, knowledge, but in images and faded memories found in shipping containers and cargo ships\r\n\r\nI can breathe, my gills pulsate through thickened water, like\r\n\r\nFighter jets piercing the sky in a single file line\r\n\r\nCriss cross applesauce, dinosaur figurines made from crude oil\r\n\r\nYour fingers through my hair, my chest pounding against yours and you whisper to me\r\n\r\n\u201cYou always had a hand at this\u201d\r\n\r\nIn that dream,\r\n\r\nI can feel love\r\n\r\nI can feel touch\r\n\r\nI can feel taste\r\n\r\nStrawberries, Napalm, Licorice\r\n\r\n\u201cYou always had a hand at this\u201d\r\n\r\nMy grandmother would say to me,\r\n\r\nShrimp dumplings coated in canola oil,\r\n\r\nBefore her last croak\u2014\r\n\r\nRegardless if it\u2019s forever or not, each day that passes, you get closer and closer to the end\r\n\r\nHow do you want to live your life?\r\n\r\nHow do you want to fill your day?<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
7 Whether it\u2019s forever or not, each day that passes you get closer and closer to the end. How do you want to live your life? How do you want to fill your day? Can you keep chapters? Yesterday was my birthday. It is becoming difficult to understand age beyond its construct. The linearity of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2220,"featured_media":13952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1575,1628],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14961"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14965,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14961\/revisions\/14965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}